Lily is Jonas' younger sister. She is a typically impatient child with straightforward, fairly simple feelings. Lily is also a chatterbox, talking continuously about subjects of interest to her. She is unconcerned about neatness, her hair ribbons are always untied, and because she is only seven (she becomes an Eight at the December Ceremony), she has many rules yet to learn.
Lily and Jonas behave like most brothers and sisters. They tease and become annoyed with one another from time to time. After Jonas has started to receive memories from the Giver, he tries to give Lily the memory of the being of an elephant (her comfort object is a stuffed elephant), but Lily complains that Jonas is hurting her because he is holding her shoulders too tightly. Lily is uninterested and unable to understand what Jonas implies when he talks to her about the fact that real elephants actually existed. She is also a one-dimensional character in The Giver.
